Top 15+ Best Operating Systems For Hackers 2017

Here are Top 15+ Best Operating Systems that are used by hackers in 2017. Have you ever wondered which is the conventional operating system for Hacking and Pentesting? Operating system concentrated on security is forever a hacker’s best friend. Therefore, we have assembled a list of the best operating systems that are frequently used for Hacking and Penetration testing. Go through the post to know about these OS.

In the cyber world, there are lots of hacking attacks that occur daily, and they are done by some of the professional hackers and by some of the newcomers who use someone’s else codes and concepts to hack. But the essential thing that every hacker needs is the hacking OS and for that Linux is one of the best choices for the hackers for a long time. So today we are here with some of the best-operating systems based on Linux that hackers can use to perform their hacking attacks flawlessly. So have a look at these OS discussed below.

Top 15+ Best Operating Systems For Hackers 2017

We are discussing here 15+ best OS for hacking with their little bit descriptions and features, and you can check them out and download the one that you think is well suited for your work. So have a look on these OS below.

It is one of the most modern OS that is being used by hackers for pen testing and lots of security exploits. This is a Linux based OS that provides you privacy and safety from the vulnerabilities that other OS have in it. So must try out this cool OS on your PC.

Features Of Kali Linux

The Kali Linux ISO of doom – an excellent example of the flexibility of live-build, and the types and complexity of customizations possible.

Kali Linux Live USB persistence with LUKS encryption

Kali Linux Full Disk Encryption

Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other interesting ARM devices

#2 Backtrack

Top 10 Best Operating Systems For Hackers 2017

The other well-known Linux based Operating system is backtrack that is being used from few previous years and best known as the OS for network cracking and pen testing. And it’s also the one of the best OS that can perform various network hacks with privacy.

This is one of the best OS for hackers that is just in the form of Live CD. In this, you just have to create a bootable USB of this OS and then simply boot on your PC, and there is no requirement to install it, you just have to run it on your PC and do hacking attacks.

Features Of Pentoo:

Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32bit

Includes the required environment to crack passwords using GPGPU with OpenCL and CUDA configured ‘out of the box'[5][6][7]

Built on hardened Linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain Hardened kernel with extra patches[8]

Uses a pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard gentoo build.

The another good operating system that every pentester would love to try out on their PC. This OS is being developed after the great necessity of many things that are not present in another Linux based OS.

Parrot Security is an operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux mixed with Frozen box OS and Kali Linux to provide the best penetration and security testing experience for the attackers and security testers. It is an operating system for IT security and penetration testing developed by the Frozen box Dev Team.

BackBox is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution penetration testing and security assessment oriented providing a network and information systems analysis toolkit. And this OS also provides you the privacy and vulnerable free environment.

Features Of Backbox:

BackBox has built one of the very first cloud platforms for penetration testing.

Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment.

BackBox is fully automated and non-intrusive, with no agents required and no network configuration changes needed to accomplish regularly scheduled, automated configuration backups.

With the BackBox dashboard overview, you save time and eliminate the need to track individual network devices

DEFT stands for Digital Evidence and Forensic Toolkit, and it’s open source distro of Linux that is built around the Digital Advance Response Toolkit (DART) software. Deft is Ubuntu customization. Computer forensics and incident response tools that DEFT Linux includes can be used by IT auditors, investigators, military, and police.

Blackbuntu is a penetration testing Linux distribution which is specially designed for training security students and information security practitioners. It is currently built on Ubuntu 10.10 with the Gnome desktop environment. Blackbuntu will also include the KDE desktop in the final release of Blackbuntu Community Edition 0.3.

Features:

Blackbuntu is designed for training students, or people wanted to learn more about computer security, penetration testing, internet security and information security.

It is one of the most advanced, powerful and yet beautiful penetration testing distribution ever created. Lined up with the ultimate collection of tools for pro Ethical Hackers and Cyber Security Experts.

Features:

Tons of tools are ready to reveal their power.

Latest tools packed to deal with ongoings

Can cope with abnormalities without compromising the essential components.

It is a fully featured security distribution based on Debian consisting of a powerful bunch of more than 300 open source and free tools. These tools can be used for various purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, ethical hacking, system and network administration, cyber forensics investigations, security testing, vulnerability analysis, and much more.

Features:

This is another best operating used by hackers. This is a penetration testing distribution which is built from Debian Squeeze. If you want to gain knowledge about WIfi hacking then this distro is for you because it contains plenty of Wireless tools.

This is another Linux based penetration testing distro for penetration testers and researchers. The latest version of BlackArch Linux has more than 1400 penetration testing tools.

Features:

Best operating system for penetration tester

The latest version has over 1400 tools

BlackArch Live ISO contains multiple window managers.

So above are the Best OS For Hackers. Must try out any of these OS on your PC if you love hacking. Hope you like this article, share this with others too. Leave a comment below if you have any related queries with this.

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